Right Out of a Muggle Storrybook
Summary: Basically this is just another cute story of how James Potter and Lily Evans come together. It takes place during the Marauders 7th year at Hogwarts and the students' new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher is making them all keep journals during the year. Also, things are especially bound to get interesting with Lily and James paired up as Head Boy and Head Girl...
Disclaimer: I don't own anything from the Harry Potter books. Everyone should probably already know this, but I feel like writing it just for the heck of it
A/N: I'm finally updating again. Yay for me. Its taken me a while partially because I've been busy getting ready for school to start again and hanging out with friends, partially because its taken a while for me to be struck with inspiration again, and partially because I'm just plain lazy (as Annie was kind enough to point out to me). But now I have new chapter! I really do have a problem with pointing out the obvious…..
Chapter 5: Absurd Ideas
Sirius' Journal
So, I'm not really sure that I understand exactly what I'm supposed to write in this thing. Its definitely a weird assignment but I guess that it can't be that bad. Nothing can be worse than those bloody huge essays that Bic had us writing. Well, my day was pretty uneventful. I woke up late, managed to avoid getting a detention after McGonagall caught me and James throwing a dungbomb in the corridor, hexed a few first years, and was yelled at by Emma in Transfiguration; nothing too much out of the ordinary. At the moment, I'm sitting in the common room with Peter, James, and Remus. Remus is studying (something utterly useless in my opinion), James is waving his wand about like a raving lunatic, trying to perform some kind of spell I suppose (either that or trying to impress Lily who just happens to be doing her homework by the fireplace), Peter's rambling on about something or other, and I'm actually doing my homework for once. I am really very proud of myself. Peter's now talking about these journal things and something about feelings. What the bloody hell is he going on about? Oh, apparently we're supposed to write about what we're feeling. Must have missed that part. Hmmmm…..now that I think about it, I am feeling rather hungry. I think that I'm going drag everyone down to dinner now, even though its still a little early.
The four Marauders were in the Great Hall, thankful that it was finally time to eat dinner. Their first day of classes had made them all quite hungry. Sirius looked on at all of the food on his plate with greedy eyes, then proceeded to practically inhale it. James chuckled to himself as he looked at his friend. He really looked funny; anyone who didn't know better would have sworn that it was the first time that he had been fed in a week. However, James was hardly one to laugh, as he himself was eating his food at an almost alarming rate. In fact, they were all really hungry, with the exception of Peter, who was nervously moving his food around with his fork. Lunch had seemed like an eternity ago. James looked down the table, and flashed a huge smile when he saw Lily. Lily gave James a disgusted look, rolled her eyes, then went back to talking to one of her roommates, Natalie Edgewood.
"Mate, next time you might want to swallow what you're eating first" Sirius laughed, obviously having seen the look that Lily had given James. James realized that Sirius probably did have a point. He might look more handsome if he didn't smile at girls with his mouth full of food and spinach in his teeth. However, James tried to ignore Sirius' comment and turned to look at Remus who had started to talk.
"So, I've been thinking that we should try to plan something special for all of the seventh years around Christmas time since we're going to be leaving soon. I doubt that Dumbledore will have a problem with it as long as its something reasonable." Remus said to the Marauders as they all turned to look at Sirius.
"Why is everyone looking at me!" Sirius asked as he feigned mock surprise. "I've always been the most sensible one of you lot"
At that very moment, Peter's nose began to grow exceedingly large. The boys continued to look at Sirius.
"Seriously though! Why does everyone always assume that I'm the one to blame? It could just as easily be James" Sirius said, clearly annoyed with his friends.
"Ok then. Was it James?" Remus asked Sirius after he had cast a few simple spells to fix Peter's nose.
"Well, no. It was me…..but that is just completely beside the point!" Sirius replied, stabbing a potato with his fork
"Anyway…" Remus said, exasperated. "Back to what we were talking about, what does everyone think? Do you have any ideas?" Sirius perked up after remembering what they were talking about, seeming to have thought of an idea. It was almost as though a light bulb from one of those muggle cartoons had appeared above his head.
"How about a school competition?" Sirius asked, his eyes bright.
"What kind of competition?" Remus inquired skeptically, liking the idea of a competition, but not quite sure where Sirius would take this.
"How about a competition where the winner is the person who manages to get the most Slytherins to cry?" Sirius said, beaming and waiting for his friends to compliment him on his marvelous idea.
All that Remus could do was shake his head as both James and Sirius excitedly talked about who they thought they would be able to make cry first, and the best hexes to use.
"I hate to be the bearer of bad new, but do you really think that Dumbledore will let us do that?" Remus asked, wondering how he was the only person who thought that getting Dumbledore's approval on this plan might be more than a little bit difficult. Sirius' face fell, and James also looked a little disappointed. "However, I do like the thought of having some sort of competition" Remus said thoughtfully, hoping to cheer his friends up.
After ten minutes of Sirius and James shouting out ideas for competitions, each one more ridiculous than the last, it was pretty cleat that having a competition wasn't going to work. While Remus and Sirius were arguing over one of Sirius' absurd ideas, James glanced over at Lily, lost in his own thoughts. If they could manage to pull off something for the seventh years, he wanted it to be something that would give him a chance with Lily.
"A dance" James blurted out, interrupting Sirius and Remus' discussion.
"What the bloody hell are you talking about now?" Sirius asked, looking at James as though he had just grown a second head.
"That's the answer for what we should do for the seventh years!" James said, seeming to be quite pleased with himself. "We can talk to Dumbledore about throwing a dance; a ball type of thing. It would be great, and I'm sure that we could get permission pretty easily" James said thoughtfully, shovelling yet more food into his mouth. Remus looked at James, obviously happy that this idea wasn't too preposterous.
"I like it!" Remus told James. "Why don't you talk to Dumbledore and see what he thinks? We could probably manage to have it all arranged for sometime around Christmas, as I said before. It might be a good idea to have it just after the Christmas holidays end and before classes start begin; that way more people will be able to go" Remus said, thinking of everything practically.
"Christmas is ages away" Peter said, joining in on the conversation while still clutching his nose tightly, as though at any moment his nose would just decide to run way, grow bigger again, or just drop off altogether. "Why don't we have it sooner?"
"Well, something like this takes a while to plan" Remus explained patiently. "And it will be a really good way to end the Christmas holidays"
"Hey Sirius, what do you think?" James asked his friend, noticing that he hadn't said anything; not something that was at all normal for Sirius.
"My idea about hexing the Slytherins was much better" Sirius replied sullenly, looking moodily down at the table from which dishes were starting to disappear.
Sirius brightened as something occurred to him. "We'll need dates for this dance if we end up having it. Right?" Sirius asked mischievously.
"Of course!" James said quickly, thinking that there would be no point to the dance otherwise.
"Ok then" Sirius said, his eyes still shining. "Then it may be somewhat interesting" It was hard to miss that Sirius was staring at Emma, who was now sitting by Natalie and talking to both Natalie and Lily.
After the boys had finished in the Great Hall, they left to go up to the common room. They were all happily talking about their ideas for the dance that James was going to propose to the Headmaster the next day, when James knocked over a pretty seventh year also from Gryffindor, Natalie.
"Hi Natalie. I'm really sorry" James said to her apologetically as he gestured for his friends to keep walking. "Here, let me help you" James bent over to help her pick up her books. James didn't know Natalie very well, he just knew that she was one of Lily's friends and that she was slightly ditzy. She seemed to be nice enough, and he knew that there were many boys in the school who fancied her.
"Oh, hi Natalie. I was looking for you" Lily said, coming down the corridor. "Where were you?" She asked. James looked up at her, and Lily frowned as she noticed that he was there.
"I was in the library" Natalie told Lily, standing up. Lily looked slightly confused at this as Natalie was hardly a studious witch, but she didn't press matters any further.
"Hello James" Lily said, trying to force a pleasant smile. She didn't manage to succeed at this; since it came out as more of a grimace. "I hope you haven't forgotten that we have to patrol the corridors tonight" Lily reminded James. It was obvious that James had forgotten this since Dumbledore gave them instructions on the Hogwarts Express. His face lit up as he smiled at Lily.
"Of course I hadn't forgotten" James lied. "What time again?"
"9:00 o'clock sharp" Lily told him. "Don't be late. I'll meet you in the Gryffindor common room"
James grinned ecstatically as Lily walked away with Natalie. He was actually going to get to spend some time with Lily. He didn't think that he could have felt better.
As Lily walked away, she couldn't help the dread of later that night creeping up on her. She was actually going to spend time with Potter. She didn't think that she could have felt worse.
A/N: So...what did everyone think? I really like the idea of having a dance, so it will be in the story, but not for a little while (hence why I decided that it will be after Christmas). Yeah, I decided to be less lazy since this chapter is a little longer than my other chapters. Go me! Please review and give me opinions on this chapter! You know that you want to.
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